The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
